"I suppose one gets to know men quickest……" — Mary Stewart
"I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted."
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19 Quotes by Mary Stewart
Mary Stewart has 19 quotes on this site.
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The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful…
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...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you…
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Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the…
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But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least…
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I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when…
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It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond,…
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Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were,…
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To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to…
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It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are…
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The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
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Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will…
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More Granted Quotes
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for…
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.
— Sean Astin
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
— Francis Bacon
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and…
— Arnold Bennett
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
— Buffalo Bill
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took…
— Wade Boggs
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else…
— Edward de Bono
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and…
— Danny Boyle
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